NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points
5% slightly better overall score
2374 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

52 FPS
60 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
29 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
41 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points
1532% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
268 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points
748.80 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points
45986 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
44007 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
42589 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586
185th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce RTX 2050 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the GeForce RTX 2050 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the GeForce RTX 2050.

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